Student Study Areas

Hallways and lobbies in College of Natural Sciences buildings are being converted into student study and collaboration areas with the addition of new furniture.  Separate projects in RLM, Welch, and Painter are addressing the areas with the greatest number of students.  High-speed wireless networking is already available in these spaces to support the use of laptops.

RLM Escalator Lobbies

The 5th, 6th, and 7th floors of RLM have 25 classrooms seating over 1,000 students.  These floors are served by escalators with lobbies that were previously unfurnished or had old and often broken furniture.  New tables, chairs, and benches were installed wherever possible without obstructing traffic flow.  The wheeled tables make it easy for students to arrange the furniture to accomodate different size groups.  And, they make cleaning the floor easy for the custodial staff

Furniture in RLM Escalator Lobbies

Welch Hallways

Welch Hall has one of the highest concentration of large auditoriums on campus.  Nine tiered classrooms and auditoriums on the first and second floors of the building seat more than 2,000 students.  Outside these classrooms are wide hallways that make ideal study areas.  Benches and "picnic tables" seating 6-8 students are on order that will give several hundred students a places to study before and after class.

Painter Hallways

Painter Hall is the home of many undergraduate Biology labs and three large auditoriums.  New benches are on order that will give students a place to wait and work before their classes begin.